Trousers-supporter.



F. M. HILGERT.

TROUSERS SUPPORTER.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. a, 1909.

Patented Aug. 2, 1910.

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FRANK M. HILGERT, F SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

TRQUSERS-STIPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1910.

Application filed September 8, 1909. Serial No. 516,649.

. To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. HILonn'r, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Spokane, inthe county of Spokane and State of Washington, have invented new and useful Improvements in Trousers- Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to trousers supporters, and one of the principal objects of the same is to provide a supporter for trousers which shall be of simple construction and which will be practically invisible when in use.

Another object of the invention is to provide a trousers supporter comprising a belt adapted to surround the hips below the waist inside the trousers and to be provided with supporting devices extending up inside the trousers and provided with loops adapted to engage buttons upon the waist band of the trousers upon the outside.

These and other objects may be attained by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,-

Figure l is a perspective View of a trousers supporter made in accordance with my invent-ion, showing a portion of the waist band of a pair of trousers connected thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail elevation of one of the supportin. members showing the belt in section. ldig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken through the belt and waist band of the trousers. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View of one of the baseplates.

Referring to'the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a belt designed to ass around the hips slightly below the waist, said belt having a wire loop 2 secured to one of its ends by means of stitches 3. This loop is provided with a rectan lar extending portion 4 forming an eye 1%) 5. This hook member is formed on the end of the wire loop 6 secured to the opposite end of the belt.

The supporters each comprises a base plate 7 provided with notches 8 at the upper and lower edges thereof and a series of perforations 9 in the body of the plate, said perforations bein provided with burs 10 u on the inner'si e of the plate, as shown in 1g. 3, said burs adapted to engage the belt 1 and to prevent the plate from slipping.

r the hook member The supporting members comprise the base plate and the upwardly extending parallel arms 11 terminating at their upper ends in a downwardly extending button loop 12. The arms 11 extend downward at the rear side of the belt 1 and at the front are bent upwardly in the form of parallel arms 13, said arms engaging the notches -8 at the top and bottom of the base plate 7 and said arms at their upper ends being extended backward and bent around the arms 11 at 14.

U on reference to Fig. l of the drawing, it Wlll be seen that there is a supporting device for each of the suspender buttons 15 secured to the waist band of a pair of trousers 16, two of said su porters at the back of the belt and four in ront.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that the belt 1 being connected below the waist and the su porters extending up underneath ries of burs u on the inner side thereof to engage the be t and notches at the top and lower edges thereof, and su porters, said supporters being constructs of a single strand of wire having its 11 per portion rojected above the plate an formed wit a downwardly extending button loop, the arms of the sup orter adapted to on age one of the faces 0 the plate and to be ent within the lower notches of the said plate and to have its extremities passed through the upper notches of the plate and connected with the arms.

In testimon whereof I afiix my signature in presence 0 two witnesses.

FRANK M. HILGERT.

Witnesses:

W. A. BEARDSLEY, R. E. Pmnnr 85 each comprisinga'base plate having a sea 

